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﻿ The Chicago Speech The presidential victory speech delivered by Barack Obama who is the president to be was held on 4th of November 2008 in Chicago. He creates an immediate bond with the audience as he begins his speech saying, "Hello Chicago!". He then pauses for a minute in order for the citizens of America to welcome him as the USA's president. Then he addresses the people who had not voted for him because they thought he was not capable of leading America and then thanking the thousands of voters that gave him his victory. The effective line "tonight is your answer", uses personal pronouns to engage the audience and involve them in his success. Obama thanks his "partner", this shows the close friendship between himself and his colleagues before thanking his own family. In the first part of the speech Obama uses many stylistic devices. Rousing first paragraph, referencing America and the American Dream. He makes repetitions (“three hours, four hours”), (“Blue States”,“United States”) to underline his ideas and to emphasize that people waited long to have the chance to vote even for the first time and that the USA is one state. He also uses a metaphor (“arc of history”) to evoke the picture of a unity that hopes together and that believes as one in the American Dream. Obama also refers to the American Dream in the first lines where he wants the audience to think about it and he wants the listeners to ask themselves if they believe in it. And this paragraph’s last word 'Answer' is beginning next triple and giving closure of solution. 'Answer' is used implying promise that Obama will solve problems. This means schools and churches about good places from which good feelings can be borrowed. Then bringing them together as 'Americans', in red and blue states, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Obama shows some of his best properties when he chooses to thank Mitt...

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WHEN he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn’t matter.
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WHEN the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco––a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home––people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn’t matter.
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Barack Obama’s candidacy speech is an important moment in the U.S politics because it is the starting point where he announces his candidacy. Obama’s speech took place in Springfield Illinois, in 2007, where former president Abraham Lincoln made his famous ‘House Divided’ speech. The main purpose of this speech was to announce his candidacy for the 2008 Presidential Elections; his other purposes was to portray himself as a man of integrity and convince his audience that he is a patriot. He does this by using different types of speech making methods such as, Prosody, Imagery and Rhetorical devices. Barack Obama then gets interviewed on the David Letterman show that opens him up to a wider range of people.
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